Advanced Eloquent

Sure, you've learned the essentials of using Eloquent in your applications, but do you really understand what's going on under the hood? Well, that's specifically what we're interested in for this series. How do all the bits and pieces fit together?

Our starting point is a laughable one: Post::find(1). It's literally the first thing you learn how to do with Eloquent. But, think about it, do you fully understand what happens behind the scenes, when you make this call?

The reality is that there's significant complexity to a full-featured ORM, like Eloquent. One area where this is immediately apparent is eager loading. In this episode, as best as we can, we'll decode this process, piece by piece. How exactly does Post::with('comments')->get() work underneath the hood?